Illuminated electric heater.



No. 893,994 PATENTEI) JULY 21, 1908. E. C. GREEN'.

ILLUMINATED ELECTRIC HEATER. APPLICATION FILED Nov. so, 1907.

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@iiiiiiilc ERANCIS C. GREEN, 'OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TOCONSOLIDATED CAIR-HEATING OOM- PANY, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK, A CORPORATIONOF NVEBT VIRGINIA. i

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To all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS C. GREEN, a citizen of the UnitedStates,'residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in IlluminatedElectric Heaters, of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention relates to illuminated electric heaters and it has forits object to so construct such heaters as to combine with their heatingfunction the ocular effect of a fuel fire. This l accomplish byproviding a casing whose front is perforated to representconventionallya iiaming bed of fuel and ar-y ranging one or more lampsand resistance elements behind said perforated front so th at the lampswill project their light through the perforations of the casing in acertain manner, while both the lamps and the resistance elements alsoproject their radiant heat through such perforationsv and serve to heatthe casing and the air currents which pass therethrough. y .l ,5,

Of the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a iront elevation ofan illuminated electric heater constructed according to my invention,with the front of the casing partly broken away. Fig. 2 represents atransverse vertical section.

. 10 in a casing whoseback and top wall 11 is preferably made of heatand light-reflecting material. 'T he bottom wall is formed withperforations 12 to permit' the entrance of air and the front Wall 13, ofwhich a portion only is shown in Fig. 1 isiormed with a lower set ofperforations 14 and an upper set 15 together with a horizontal melderine or bead l16 separating the two. The lower perforations 14 areregular and closely grouped so as to conventionally represent to the eyethe appearance of a bed oi coals, whilcthe upper perforations arestreaky and tongueh r e in a generai up-and-down direction so as Thedividing head 16 is referably waved to appear like the top surace of afuel-bed.`

Within the casing and supported on its bottom wall isla-bank of electricincandescent lamps 17, and above these is an electric heating devicewhich may be of the kind ernployed hin electric street-car creating,emodying, as here shown, two horizontal pori celain cores 18, andheliealiy-composed barewire resistance-elements 19 helicaliy wound onsaid cores, .the whole being supported by end-frames or brackets 20which-stand on the bottom of the casing. Suitable wirin conveys theelectric current from anexterna source oi supply to these heating andilluminating devices. T he number and speciiic construction of suchdevices is immaterial to the present invention.

Ln operation, the lam s 17, whose globes may be appropriately co cred,illuminate the interior oi the casing and cast their 'light and radiantheat out through the periorations 14,'

15 of the irontcasing, so that the latter presente to the eye theappearance of a iiaming bed of coals. rihe lamps also project radiantheat and cause heated air-currents to rise' through the casing and passout through the front periorations, and it will be noted that- 1 theycould be used alone Without the -barewire heaters in cases-where a smalldegree of heat isconsidered sufhcient. i: prefer however, to use thewire resistance elements; 19,

or their equivalents, of any of the kinds regularly employed Aierelectrically heating apartments and to locate one or more of these abovethe lamp or lamps in a'casing having the construction described. The

.wire-heating elements thus project their radiant heat through theupperperforations independently of the lamps 17 andthere is attained acertain desirable progressive heating of the upwardly and outwardlypassing air-currents, first by the relatively-low temperature oi the1lamp-globes -.and iinally by the higher temperature of the 'exposedwire heaters.

i claim:

1. Anilluminated electric heater compris-- ing a casing whoseiront isperforated to imitate a'iiaming fuel-bed and permit the passage ofair-currents, and one or more elec', ric lamps located in said casing. v

2. An illuminated electric heater coinprising a casing whose iront isformed with a f lower set oi perorations imitating a fuel-bed and anupper set oi tongue-.hire periorations imitating iiames and one or morelamps so located in said casing as to projectheat and light'through bothsets of perforations.

3. An illuminated electric heater comprising a casing whose iront isperforated in imitation of a flaming' fuel-bed, in combination with aset of electric lamps located inthe :oom-illuminating resistance heatingelement part thereof. located in the uppe m't thereof. In testimony'whereof .have hereunto Il. All illuminated. e ectre heater comprismynhand in the presence of two subscribing 5 img a eesilllg vghose @ont is*formed wltl (al, Wthosses, the 22nd day of November 1907. 15

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owey part saldiv casing, and en. exposed sstmlce heating device locatedin the upper

